Second, the inscription of calligraphy and painting is a part of the work. Its content, form and position should be closely coordinated with the work. Books, paintings, inscriptions and seal cutting are interrelated and benefit from each other, becoming a unified whole.
Ni Yunlin's calligraphy is elegant. Either the poem ends with a postscript, or the poem is written after the postscript. Wen Hengshan's brushwork is neat, Shen's brushwork is free and easy, his poems are strange and horizontal, and Chen Baiyang's inscription is brilliant. Since the Yuan Dynasty, it has become an artistic means to add poetry to Chinese paintings.
Postscript of extended information plays an important role in Chinese painting art and is an integral part of Chinese painting composition. Generally speaking, calligraphy and painting, rubbings and other words inscribed before and after. Can be called inscriptions. The word written in front of the painting or inscription is called "title" and the word written behind it is called "postscript".
Before the Song Dynasty, there were no inscriptions on paintings, and even if there were, they just wrote their names in obscure places such as tree trunks and behind rocks. This art form developed with the rise of literati painting and eventually became an important art form of traditional painting in China.
The inscriptions and postscripts made by calligraphers are nothing more than seven categories: poems, books, books (calligraphy works), tablets, seals, paintings and miscellaneous postscripts.
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